Welcome to the PE Classroom

Welcome! My name is Susan Thur and I am looking forward to a new and exciting school year. This is my fourteenth year teaching Physical Education at St. Peter’s School. My goal for PE class is to educate and motivate students to want to stay physically active and make healthy lifestyle choices. Throughout the year we will be working on the health components of flexibility, cardiovascular fitness, muscular strength, muscular endurance and body composition as well as the skill components of agility, balance, power, reaction time, coordination and speed.

PE Grades

Kindergarten - 4^th Grade

100% of grade is based on a 10 point system for each class.

· 4 points Participation

· 4 points Sportsmanship

· 2 points following PE class rules

All 10 points will be recorded under the term participation in the grade book. Failure to receive all points for each class will generate a comment indicating area of deficiency.

5^th Grade

Grading will be according to the 10-point system listed above with the exception of the water safety unit. Work related to the water safety unit will be counted as 20% of student’s grade in the quarter(s) in which the unit is taught.

6^th Grade – 8^th Grade

80% of grade is based on the 10-point system listed above.
20% of grade will be based on assessment of skills using observations, verbal/written quizzes, assignments, and projects.

February 8, 2012

Information regarding our Jumps and Hoops events for the American Heart Association has been distributed to the students. Our events will run next week during PE classes February 13^th-Feb.16^th. Collecting donations for the American Heart Association is optional, but the signed permission slip is required to participate in our Jumps and Hoops Events. The permission slip may be found on the collection envelope. Please detach and return to school as soon as possible. Any donations made to the American Heart Association may be turned in anytime before February 28^th. Our Jumps Event is open to all students in pre-K through fourth grades. We will have rope jumping along with many other jumping activities for our younger students who have not yet mastered rope jumping skills. Our Hoops Event is open to students in grades five through eight. Each class will participate in a 3-on-3 Basketball Tournament. Students will make up their own teams using the format requirements of 1 boy, 1 girl, and the third person can be a boy or girl.

January 27, 2012

Our school will be participating in Jumps and Hoops for American Heart Association the week of February 13^th. We participate in this event first and foremost because jumping rope and playing basketball are excellent cardiovascular workouts for our students. The American Heart Association has offered participation to us in a special promotion for the 2011-2012 school year. They have challenged us to spread the word about heart disease and stroke through the use of the web pages. For every 30 students, faculty or friends (neighbors, coworkers, brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles or grandparents) who send out 15 emails St. Peter’s will be awarded a $100 certificate for PE equipment. This program is based totally on the number of emails sent out, not monetary donations made to the Heart Association. Please support the Heart Association effort and at the same time support the PE program at St. Peter’s by going to www.heart.org/jumps (grades PreK-4th) or www.heart.org/hoops (grades 5-8) and sign up to send out your emails. This site has generic letters you can send or you have the option of creating your own personal letter to send. **Make sure you join the St. Peter’s Waldorf Team.

Spring Sports-Track, Soccer, Softball

We are in the process of scheduling and lining up coaches for our Spring Sports Season. The middle school will have the opportunity to participate in track, soccer and or softball starting in March. Practices will be held after school for 3:40-5:00pm. The sport practices will be scheduled so that a student may participate in more than one sport. We look forward to an exciting and competitive season. If you would like to help with coaching one of our spring sports please email Mrs. Thur at schoolpe@stpeterswaldorf.org.

January 2012

Happy New Year to everyone! The PE program is expanding to include tennis!!!!! Beginning this week grades 3-8 will be introduced to their first levels of our tennis program. This program is sponsored through the National Tennis Association and is very versatile allowing us the capability to teach the program indoors as well as outdoors.

December 2011

Merry Christmas!

The second grade has been hard at work practicing their balance on stilts. On our last day of school for the 2011 year, Mr. West paid the second grade a visit during PE class for a friendly competition of balance on stilts.

Our 4^th grade enjoyed their last day of PE class participating in beach ball battle and limbo.

SOCCER TOURNAMENT UPDATE

Grade 1-3 Team A	Grade 1-3 Team B	Grade 4-5 Team	Grade 6-8 Team
Coaches: Mr. Miller & Mrs. Lutz	Coaches: Mrs. Doughty & Mr. Kelly	Coaches: Mrs. Sandlin & Mrs. Liberati	Coach: Mr. Beattie

Kathleen Cain	Emily Dixon	Carmela Balacuit	Sarah Bylan
Jedd Concepcion	Kendrick Carlos	Alyssa Salud-Benipayo	Zachary Cheeks
Travis Conway	Jakob Cannon	Kristen Blais	Patrick DeFilippo
Brianna Eckenrode	Jeffrey Ellison	Sierra Brandts	Frank Furtado
David Fajerski	India Farrington	Anna Bylan	Anthony Gray
Luke Foreman	Maricia Odeyemi	Patricia Cain	Elizabeth Kidwell
Andrew Foreman	Bruce Reyes	T.J. Dixon	Miguel Lopez
Trevor Goldring	Tadeo Rushing	Jade Dofat	Wayne Lutz
Caitlyn Kelly	Dillon Talactac	Justin Flores	Tyler Miller
Matthew Langrell	Trequan Thompson	Jamal Frierson	Michelle Onianwah
Ella Leginze	Victoria Cannon	Lauren Liberati	Rene Reyes
Kaarli Lutz	Randall Dofat	Keyona McCullough	Aleah Ward
Charlie Sullivan	Joshua Doughty	Pauline Oteyza	Patrick Beattie
Abigail Vanasse	Tyler Kelly	Christopher Piazza	Luciano Benjamin
Andrea Tripplett	Christopher May	Sophia Poyner	Matthew Foreman
Jacob Villaflor	Raquel Rawlins	J-Tura Reid	Morgan Sandlin
Augustus Walls	Julian Reyes	Taylor Sandlin	Carlos Souffrain
Miles Ward	Cameron Robey	Shane Schwartz	Moira Sullivan
Anthony Wilson	Ethan Tacastacas	Margaret Sullivan	Ali Zadeh
Natalie Fajerski		Trevor Tripplett	Jay Jay Adkins
Andrew Leginze		Isabella Williams	Rebecca Jerome
Michael Miller		Jacob Yalung	Michael Kenney
Juan Villaflor		Bishop Detrich	Gerard McNair-Lewis
Victoria Wilson		Ryan Parker	Ralph Liberati
		Chimaobi Uzowihe

Soccer Players- On October 26^th all players are to come to school wearing their Storm sports uniform, have shin guards and bring a bottle of water for the tournament. Storm shorts and jerseys may be purchased at the Carousel. The Storm Locker Room sells used jerseys for $5.00. Cleats may be worn for the Tournament but cannot be worn during the school day.

Soccer Coaches- Please report to the PE room at 1:00 p.m. on Oct. 26^th to ride the bus with your team to the fields.

Soccer Transportation- Our teams will be leaving by bus with their coaches at approximately 1:20 on Wednesday. Players are to check out with their coaches at the end of the Tournament. All players must be picked up at Bryantown Soccer Complex by 5:00pm. The Complex is approximately 7 miles from the school located on Bryantown Road.

Directions to Soccer Complex from St. Peter’s School- Turn RT out of Church parking lot onto Popular Hill Road. Take the first LT onto Mattawoman Beantown Rd/MD-5 S. Turn LT onto MD-5 S/ Leonardtown Road and go 4.9 miles. Turn LT (at the light) onto Bryantown Road and Soccer Complex is on the left.

Volunteers:

Coaches:

*Grades 6-8 - Mr. Beattie

*Grades 4-5 - Mrs. Sandlin & Mrs. Liberati

*Grades 1-3 Team A - Mr. Miller & Mrs. Lutz

*Grades 1 -3 Team B - Mrs. Doughty & Mr. Kelly

Referees:
*6-8 Field 3 - Mr. Hunt

*4-5 Field 6 - Mrs. Blais

*1-3 Field 11 - Mr. Reyes

*1-3 Field 1

   Linesmen:
      *1-3 Field 11 - Mrs. Reyes

*1-3 Field 11 - Mrs. Ellison

*1-3 Field 1 - Mrs. A.Reid

*1-3 Field 1 - Mrs. J.Concepcion

*4-5 Field 6 - Mrs. J.Flores

*4-5 Field 6 - Mrs. A.Benipayo

*6-8 Field 3 - Mrs. Zadeh

*6-8 Field 3

First Aid Station:
*1:30-2:30 - Mrs. Tacastacas

* 2:30-3:30 - Mrs.Foreman

*3:30-4:30 - Mrs.Souffrain

*4::30-5:00 - Mrs. Brandts + 1^st Aid Coordinator

Soccer Help Needed - We are currently in need of one referee for the grade 1-3 field 1. We are also in need of a linesman for field 3. If you are available to help out with these positions please contact Mrs. Miller at Angeltj1@hotmail.com or Mrs.Thur at schoolpe@stpeterswaldorf.org.

Soccer Practice Schedule-The coaches will practice with their soccer team on Monday and/or Tuesday according to the following schedule.

Storm Team-grades 6-8 - Mon. Oct. 24^th 3:40-5:00pm - meet in PE room

Storm Team grades 4-5 -Tues. Oct 25^th 3:40-5:00pm - meet in 5^th grade class

Storm Team A grades 1-3 - Tues. Oct. 25^th - 3:40-5:00pm - meet in PE room

Storm Team B grades 1 -3 - Mon. Oct 24^th and Tues Oct 25^th - 3:40-5:00pm - meet in 2^nd grade class

October 24, 2001

During the month of October lower grades were working on locomotor movements and the upper grades were working on soccer skills and the President’s Challenge for physical fitness. Below are a few pictures from PE classes this month. 1^st picture is Taylor P. 8^th grade trying to balance on pogo stick, picture 2 & picture 3 are 4^th graders dancing with twister moves on a rainy day in PE and picture 4,5,6 are kindergarten enjoying parachute activities last week.

Picture 1

Pictures 2 & 3

Pictures 4, 5, & 6

September 30, 2011

Volleyball- Practice for the team will be Monday, Oct.3^rd from 3:40-5:00pm. Our next game will be at home against St. Mary’s Bryantown Tuesday at 4:00pm. Go Storm!

Soccer- The Middle School Storm Team went down to a defeat in their home opener against Southern Maryland Christian Academy on Sept. 26^th. We will be traveling Thursday, Oct. 6^th for an away game from 4-5 pm against Southern Maryland Christian Academy. Be strong, play hard and never give up!
GO STORM!

Soccer Tournament- Our Fall Soccer Tournament is scheduled for Wednesday, October 26^th at the Bryantown Soccer Complex. Permission slips to play soccer for our Storm teams will be handed out on Oct.3^rd. This event is open to students in grades 1-8. Permission slips are due back in by Tuesday, October 11^th. All soccer players must be in the Storm sport uniform to participate. The Storm Locker Room is selling used jerseys for $5.00. We do not stock Storm shorts. You may purchase a new jersey and shorts at the Carousel in Waldorf.

Cheerleading-Practice for cheerleaders will start Monday, Oct.3^rd from 6:15-7:30pm in the PE room. For questions or concerns please contact the Cheerleading Director Ms. Kathy Conklin at kathydc1418@yahoo.com .

September 26, 2011

Volleyball - The Storm Volleyball Team played against St. Mary’s in Bryantown on Sept.22^nd. The girls won their match, the boys lost their match and coed forced a third game which went down to the wire with St. Mary’s winning by a margin of just 2 point. Great effort Storm! We have volleyball practice Wednesday Sept. 28^th from 3:40-5:00pm. The Storms next match will be against Archbishop Neale in La Plata this Thursday Sept. 29^th from 4-6pm.

Soccer - Our Storm Soccer Team will open the season by hosting Southern Maryland Christian Academy Monday Sept. 26^th from 4-5pm. GO STORM!

Basketball - Basketball is open boys and girls in grades 5-8. There will be a meeting for the parents and students who are interested in the basketball program this Tuesday Sept.27^th at 7pm.

This week the lower grades will be working on locomotor movements and soccer skills. The upper grades will have a quiz on volleyball and start soccer skills.

September 19, 2011

Congratulations the students that made our Storm Volleyball Team for 2011:

Jay Jay Adkins

Patrick Beattie

Dylan Bell

Zachary Cheek

Raion Fet

Anthony Gray

Miguel Lopez

Wayne Lutz

Rene Reyes

Sammy Saylor

Fred Watson

Kiernan Aud

Stephanie Beall

Kutina Carlos

Taylor Crouch

Mikayla Farrell

Rebecca Jerome

Leah May

Ciara Norman

Michelle Onianwah

Mindy McNamara

Tahjze Strong

Samantha Williams

Our season will open with a game against ANS at St. Peters on Tuesday Sept. 20^th at 4:00pm. Volleyball practice will be Wednesday Sept. 21^st after school until 5:00pm. On Thursday Sept. 22^nd we will be traveling to St. Mary’s in Bryantown for games from 4-6pm.

Soccer- Our Storm middle school soccer team will practice Monday Sept.19^th from 3:40-5:00pm. Our first soccer game is Monday Sept. 26^th from 4:00-5:00pm at home. We will be playing Southern Maryland Christian Academy.

Basketball & Cheerleading- Sign up sheets for basketball were sent out via the newsletter on Friday and cheerleading sign up sheets were handed out today.

PE Class-This week in PE class the upper grades will continue working on volleyball and the lower grades will be working on the locomotor movement of walking and running.

September 13, 2011

Volleyball- Tryouts for the Storm volleyball team will be held after school on Thursday, September 15^th from 3:40-5:00pm. Tryouts for the team are open to all middle school students.

Soccer- Tryouts for the Storm Middle School Soccer Team were held on Monday, September 12^th. There was a great effort by everyone who attended.

Storm Soccer Team 2011-2012

Head Coach: Mr. Beattie

Jay Jay Adkins

Patrick Beattie

Luciano Benjamin

Zachary Cheeks

Matthew Foreman

Frank Furtado

Jeremy Butler

Juanya Johnson

Michael Kenney

Miguel Lopez

Wayne Lutz

Gerard McNair-Lewis

Tyler Miller

Michelle Onianwah

Rene Reyes

Aleah Ward

Ali Zadeh

Practice will be on Mondays from 3:40-5:00pm. A permission slip will be sent out this week for all the players and their parents to complete for the fall season.

Basketball & Cheerleading- Ms. Conklin is the Director of our cheerleading program. Information regarding cheerleading will be sent out this week. Practices will be held on Mondays. A start date has not as of yet been set. Mr. & Mrs. Thorpe have most graciously accepted the position of Director for our basketball program for the 2011-2012 season. More information on basketball will be forthcoming.

This week the lower grades will be working on locomotor movements and the upper grades will be working on volleyball skills.